Compound Butters That Add A Million Bucks To Your Meal. They're so easy and cost practically nothing. Compound butter refers to butter that's been infused with a flavor, taking it from near-perfect to transcendental.

Compound Butter

NYT Cooking: A mixture of butter and other ingredients makes a compound butter, which can be used as a kind of insta-sauce on top of cooked meat, vegetables or fish. A classic variety is maître d’hotel butter, which uses thyme and lemon juice as flavoring agents.<br/><br/>But a cilantro-and-lime-juice compound butter is a marvelous thing to apply to fish, and you could even think of ...